2015 mispon Indigenous Film Festival

The Festival this year honours our late friends, Michele Sereda and Lacy Morin-Desjarlais, who were tragically lost in a car accident on February 10th, 2015. Michele Sereda was our performance mentor in our community collaborative projects with La Ronge and Cumberland House. Our last project with her, Berries and Bannock, premiered at the Performing Turtle Island Symposium held earlier this year at the University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada. Lacy Morin-Desjarlais was a multi-talented artist and an emerging media artist who wanted to curate screenings for us. They were great friends and deeply loved by all of our organization. We carry on sharing their work and honouring their legacy.

Emerging curator and current U of R film student, Louise BigEagle, programmed a great selection of shorts spotlighting stories of indigenous women of all ages from around the world. Special thanks to imagineNATIVE for kindly giving access to the mediatheque of programmed shorts from the 16th imagineNATIVE film + media arts festival in Toronto, ON.

A very special evening double feature screening of films intended for a mature audience. Co-presented by imagineNATIVE and sponsored in part, by the Department of Film at the University of Regina. Special guest, Chasing the Light director Blackhorse Lowe in attendance!